Joseph Dines

{{short description|English footballer}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1886|4|12}}

| birth_place = King's Lynn, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1918|9|27|1886|4|12|df=y}}

| death_place = Pas-de-Calais, France

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| position = Centre half

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| clubs1 = Lynn All Saints

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| clubs2 = Lynn United

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| years3 = 1904–1910

| clubs3 = Lynn Town

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| clubs4 = → Norwich City (guest)

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| clubs5 = → Woolwich Arsenal (guest)

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| clubs6 = → Queens Park Rangers (guest)

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| years7 = 1910–1912

| clubs7 = Ilford

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| years8 = 1912

| clubs8 = Liverpool

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| clubs9 = Ilford

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| clubs10 = Walthamstow Avenue

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| clubs11 = Millwall

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| clubs12 = Lynn Town

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| nationalteam1 = England amateur

| nationalcaps1 = 27

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| nationalyears2 = 1912

| nationalteam2 = Great Britain

| nationalcaps2 = 3

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{{MedalSport | Men's football }}

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{{MedalGold | 1912 Stockholm | Team competition }}

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Joseph Frank Dines (12 April 1886 – 27 September 1918) was an English amateur footballer who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/25213 |title=Joseph Dines |work=Olympedia |access-date=23 May 2021}}

File:Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics - UK squad.JPG

He represented Great Britain as part of the England national amateur football team, which won the gold medal in the football tournament.{{Cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/di/joseph-dines-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801084838/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/di/joseph-dines-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 August 2017 |title=Joseph Dines |website=Sports Reference |access-date=3 August 2015}} He played all three matches.

Dines was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, where he worked as a school teacher alongside playing local football in the town.{{Cite web |url=https://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/norwich-city-s-first-world-war-heroes-1-5772314 |title=Norwich City's true heroes: the players who gave their lives in the First World War |last=Lakey |first=Chris |website=Eastern Daily Press |date=9 November 2018 |language=en |access-date=29 October 2019}} He is listed in the 1901 census as a National Schools' Monitor.1901 census – 4 Whitefriars Terrace, South Lynn, Norfolk Dines later moved to the Ilford/South Woodford area, playing for local non-league club Ilford. Dines resisted attempts to become a professional, however played for Liverpool, Walthamstow Avenue and Millwall, as well as featuring for Norwich City and Woolwich Arsenal's reserves during his time at Lynn Town.{{Cite web |url=https://www.thelinnets.co.uk/archive/joedines.php |title=Joe Dines |website=Blue & Gold Supporters Trust |access-date=3 January 2020 |archive-date=3 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103195343/https://www.thelinnets.co.uk/archive/joedines.php |url-status=dead }} During the First World War, he served in the Army Ordnance Corps, the Middlesex Regiment, the Machine Gun Corps and latterly as a second-lieutenant in the King's Liverpool Regiment. He was killed, aged 31, in Pas-de-Calais on the Western Front, He is buried in Harvincourt.{{Cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |website=Sports Reference |access-date=3 August 2015}}